Can I Get The Tele Twang on Steel

[Jerry Brightman]

To Bill,

This is one, if not the most incredible things I have heard on steel guitar in a long time! I tip my hat to you for your obvious abilities in what you have just presented to us. I have listened to this clip several times...

Thanks for sharing this with the community!

Jerry Brightman
http://www.slidestation.com

[Alan Brookes]

I get that Tele sound all the time with this one...
My Tele/Lap with Loni's Lap Dancer Redneck...

I've seen the Lap Dancer replacement necks advertised, and I've often wondered why the sound would differ from a regular Telecaster with a riser nut. I think a large proportion of people playing lap steel do so by just putting a riser nut on a regular solid electric, or, even easier, which gives you a shorter scale, is to slip a 1/4" length of round stainless-steel bar under the strings at the second fret.

[Alan Brookes]

...Alan,there may be situations where in a band you are the only lead instrument...

Here's Basil Henriques answer to that problem...

Sitting at PSG he has a Telecaster strung round his neck, which is fitted with MIDI electronics. I've never seen anyone switch so effortlessly from one to another, with almost no break in the music. In one number he'll play steel, jump to lead, and then add some synthesized MIDI sounds, and back to steel.